International Affairs

The third edition of India International Textiles Expo (IITExpo) Colombo 2019, organized by Powerloom Development and Export Promotion Council (PDEXCIL), Mumbai India will conclude today (31) at Hotel Galadari, Colombo yesterday.

Finance Ministry has not given its consent for the proposal by Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana to appoint Dulmini Attanayake, the daughter of former General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) as the Third Secretary in the Sri Lankan Embassy in Australia.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife Maitree Wickremesinghe performed ‘Nava Chandi Homa’ and offered special prayers to Goddess Sri Mookambika at Kollur in India yesterday (Friday), the Deccan Herald reported.

A top UN official yesterday urged Sri Lanka to step up promotion and advocacy post-Easter Sunday setback, saying it was everyone’s responsibility to tell the world it was a safe, environmentally-conscious, fantastic and gorgeous island that is a must-visit destination.

The people of Sri Lanka must act together to secure democracy, human rights and the rule of law, says UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule.

Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Atul Keshap has been appointed as a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

ඉන්දියාවේ ජාතික බුද්ධි කාර්යාංශය විසින් මෙහෙයවන පළමු විදේශීය පරීක්ෂණය බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ පරීක්ෂණ පත්වනු ඇති බව ඉන්දීය වාර්තා සඳහන් කරයි.

The Easter Sunday bombings case in Sri Lanka is likely to be the first case for the NIA to probe after Parliament amended an Act empowering it to investigate terror cases abroad, officials said on Sunday, the Times of India reported.

Sri Lankans joined hundreds of others in a protest outside Australia’s Parliament House today.

මැලේසියා හා ඩුබායි අයි.එස්. සංවිධානයේ ප්‍රබලයන් දෙදෙනකුට කටුනායක ගුවන්තොටුපොළෙන් මෙරටට ඇතුළු වීමට ආගමන විගමන නිලධාරීන් උදව් ලබාදී ඇති බවට බුද්ධි අංශ වෙත තොරතුරු ලැබී ඇත.

British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Ambassador to the Maldives James Dauris is the guest on Milinda Moragoda’s popular English TV talk show ‘In Black & White’ which will be telecast tomorrow, 28 July, at 8:30 p.m. on TV One.

Sri Lanka is known to be unhappy with the funds allocated to it by India in its latest Budget, which when compared to that allocated for other close neighbours and even Indian Ocean Region countries, is small, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.

It has been revealed that the waste containers had been sent to Ceylon Metal Processing Corporation (pvt) Ltd by a company belonging to Sasikumaran Muthuramar’s brother.

Investigations into the importation of 130 containers of used mattresses takes a new twist with the owner of Ceylon Metal Processing Corporation (pvt) Ltd Sasikumaran Muthurama has taken over the responsibility of garbage imports from UK.

කුවේටයේ ගෘහ සේවය සඳහා ගොස් සිටියදී තම හාම්පුතුන්ගේ පහරදීම්, වැටුප් නොලැබීම් සහ විවිධ හිරිහැරවලට ලක් වූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික කාන්තාවන් 57 දෙනෙකු අද (29) දින උදෑසන කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපළ වෙත එවා තිබුණා.

The daughter of the former UNP General Secretary and former Health Minister Tissa Attanayake, Dulmini Attanayake has been appointed as the Third Secretary to the Australian High Commission, it is reported.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said that as Sri Lanka and Japan are both interested in maritime security, they should further increase cooperation between the two navies to ensure international maritime security as well as safety and security in international waters.